asterisk users - Jul 2012 - As Kevin Fleming says "So long, and thanks for all the fish!", we say thank you - and look to the future

It's amazing what you can learn in a few days... 

Having just found out that Queen Elizabeth has a great sense of humor, it has
now emerged that Kevin Fleming - a man who (both with and without his moustache)
has been an amazing contributor and influencer in the Asterisk project is set to
move on to a new challenge outside the project - but still within the realms of
Open Source.

Kevin has been involved with Asterisk for 7+ years, and has been both a thought
leader and a powerful voice in the Asterisk world during that time. I first met
Kevin at a TMC event called VoIP Developer in California (old school, well
before the days of IT Expo), where he was speaking about Asterisk as well as
helping to man the Digium booth at the event.

I've also followed Kevin around Berlin looking for great gelato during the
AstriCon Europe 2006 tour - and it was well worth it, that man knows his gelato!

I'd like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Kevin for his enormous
contribution to the Asterisk Project. Without his efforts, Asterisk would not be
the success it is today ... Anyway, back to main theme - when someone in a
senior role like Kevin moves on, it is important that others are there to pick
up his responsibilities and move the project forward.

As it turns out, we've already been working on this, and have some very
talented people that will be taking up the key responsibilities of the project
going forward. Some of them have been involved with Asterisk for several years,
and some are recent additions, but together they form a great team to lead
Asterisk into the future.



Matt Jordan has assumed the project leader role for Asterisk, and is responsible
for managing the releases of Asterisk, as well as all of the development efforts
within Digium.
Mark Michelson is serving as the Technical Lead for the project, responsible for
architecture and design direction.
We have also recently created the role of Community Support Manager, which Rusty
Newton has filled. Rusty is a long time Digium employee with many years
supporting Asterisk and Digium products, and will be the day to day interface
for community technical issues.

As you know, I recently joined Digium to look after the interests of the
worldwide Open Source Asterisk community and I will therefore also be working
alongside the good people identified above, especially Rusty.

So while we wish Kevin all the best as he moves on, we are also confident that
the good work he and the rest of the team have done continues to be in the best
hands going forwards.

To the future... 

David 

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